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1986
Two days of anti-government riots in Port-au-Prince result in 14 dead.
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1968
South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu declares martial law.
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U.S. troops drive the North Vietnamese out of Tan Son Nhut airport in Saigon.
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1965
Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and 770 others are arrested in protest against voter discrimination in Alabama.
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1964
President Lyndon B. Johnson rejects Charles de Gaulle‘s plan for a neutral Vietnam.
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1960
Four black students stage a sit-in at a segregated Greensboro, N.C. lunch counter.
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1951
Three A-bomb tests are completed in the desert of Nevada.
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1945
U.S. Rangers and Filipino guerrillas rescue 513 American survivors of the Bataan Death March.
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1944
U.S. Army troops invade two Kwajalein Islands in the Pacific.
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1943
American tanks and infantry are battered at German positions at Faid Pass in North Africa.
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1942
Planes of the U.S. Pacific fleet attack Japanese bases in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands.
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1931
Boris Yeltsin, The first president of the Republic of Russia and prime minister of the Russian Federation.
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1930
A Loening Air Yacht of Air Ferries makes its first passenger run between San Francisco and Oakland, California..
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1909
U.S. troops leave Cuba after installing Jose Miguel Gomez as president.
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1905
Germany contests French rule in Morocco.